There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

“We found that gut bacteria, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, ferment sugars into ethanol in the ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Cancer cells survive therapy by dynamically rewiring their metabolism in response to nutrient availability, ...

A research team has delivered an overview of how computational tools are reshaping the design of nonnatural metabolic pathways—engineered biochemical routes that do not exist in nature but enable ...

A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...